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Animal Spirits Podcast

So Bearish It's Bullish (EP.409)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

News, Business News, Business, Investing

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On episode 409 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: some 1929 and 1932 comparisons, the impact of tariffs on small businesses, supply chain problems are coming, putting the dollar's move into perspective, jumping into a recession, why a recession might feel worse than it actually is, the correction is still relatively mild, retail keeps buying the dip, Bitcoin is decoupling, $145,000 mud rooms and much more! This episode is sponsored by YCharts. Grab a copy of their new deck: https://go.ycharts.com Sign up for The Compound newsletter and never miss out: thecompoundnews.com/subscribe Find complete show notes on our blogs: Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.   Investing involves the risk of loss. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be or regarded as personalized investment advice or relied upon for investment decisions. Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are employees of Ritholtz Wealth Management and may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this video. All opinions expressed by them are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholtz Wealth Management. The Compound Media, Incorporated, an affiliate of Ritholtz Wealth Management, receives payment from various entities for advertisements in affiliated podcasts, blogs and emails. Inclusion of such advertisements does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by the Content Creator or by Ritholtz Wealth Management or any of its employees. For additional advertisement disclaimers see here https://ritholtzwealth.com/advertising-disclaimers. Investments in securities involve the risk of loss. Any mention of a particular security and related performance data is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security. The information provided on this website (including any information that may be accessed through this website) is not directed at any investor or category of investors and is provided solely as general information. Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's show is brought to by white charts.

0:01.4

Ben, last week I mentioned that my screen time has been elevated in a significant way.

0:09.5

And breakout confirmed.

0:11.0

This week was even higher than the last week.

0:12.6

I'm not going to tell you how many hours a day I spent on my phone because it's embarrassing at this point.

0:16.0

But if I had the same-

0:18.0

Hey, listen, for me, it's like my portfolio.

0:19.0

I don't look at the time.

0:21.5

So it didn't happen.

0:22.0

Okay.

0:28.1

If I had that same feature on my screen, it would say you spent seven hours last week on Y charts.

0:28.8

Probably more, actually.

0:30.3

Probably way more.

0:31.0

Who am I kidding?

0:31.7

First thing I check in the day.

0:33.2

So everything's in the headlines these days. And we've talked about, you and Josh talked about this last week on what are your thoughts

0:41.0

about ignoring the noise is basically impossible, right?

0:43.6

It sounds like good advice.

0:45.6

Tune out the noise.

0:46.7

Yeah, just tune it out.

0:47.9

The thing in your pocket that's constantly alerting you.

0:50.3

So Y charts created a brand new deck.

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